Accra has been experiencing periodic flooding that affect properties and lives. The government seeing the dangers involved, commissioned institutions such as Ministry of Works and Housing, Town and Country Planning and City Engineers to identify such areas and adapt measures that will help reduce the effect of the periodic event. These institutions identify flood risk zones using conventional m...

A distribution company plans on improving its overall delivery scheme. However, the first phase in this series of changes involves the task of zoning the company’s Metro Manila clients taking into consideration three factors: (1) contiguity; (2) composition of orders; and (3) frequency of orders. The first consideration, contiguity, is difficult to account for because of lack of available techn...

A previous definition of seismogenic zones is required to do a probabilistic seismic hazard analysis for areas of spread and low seismic activity. Traditional zoning methods are based on the available seismic catalog and the geological structures. It is admitted that thermal and resistant parameters of the crust provide better criteria for zoning. Nonetheless, the working out of the rheological...

Regional spatial functional zoning in China is a large-scale strategic planning and requires very advanced planning decision support technology. With respect to spatial functional zoning, the planning support system (PSS) is introduced as one of the most popular computer aided planning systems at the present time in this paper, and is further explained with the example of the latest regional ma...

A land use regression (LUR) model for the mapping of NO(2) concentrations in Ottawa, Canada was created based on data from 29 passive air quality samplers from the City of Ottawa's National Capital Air Quality Mapping Project and two permanent stations. Model sensitivity was assessed against three spatial representations of population: population at the dissemination area level, population at t...